12/22/2025
Teach your children to anchor their identity in something deeper than opinions, trends, or the shifting moods of other people.
Because the world will always have something to say.
There will be classmates who project their insecurities,
adults who misunderstand them,
and moments where they’re tempted to shrink to fit.
But a child who knows their worth from the inside out
isn’t easily thrown off course.
They don’t crumble at criticism,
or chase validation,
or bend themselves to stay accepted.
They move through the world with a grounded sense of who they are —
what they value,
what they deserve,
and what they simply will not tolerate.
And that kind of rootedness doesn’t appear on its own.
It’s built slowly through the way we treat them,
the way we speak to them,
the way we repair when we get it wrong,
the way we listen when they tell us who they are.
It grows each time we honour their feelings,
set boundaries with respect,
acknowledge their strengths without inflating them,
and remind them that mistakes don’t dent their worth.
Our job isn’t to protect them from every unkind moment.
It’s to help them build a foundation strong enough
that when the world inevitably tests them,
it doesn’t rewrite the way they see themselves.
And with roots like that, the world has far less power to unsteady them. ❤️
